>Hi Philippe,
>
>Interesting post :-).
>I don't have time right now to answer all the pros you mention for
>newsgroups, so I'll just throw in a couple of things that I think is
>flawed in your suggestion (rude, perhaps! sorry!).
>
>Philippe A. wrote:
I guess you know what newsgroups are, and that they existed before Google.
What Google did is to index them into their database.
They did not only that, they also created a
great web interface to browse them.
>
>Actually DejaNews did that and then Google bought DejaNews, AFAIR.
>
> ) Not everyone has a Gmail account (required to post through Groups)
> ) Not everyone is adept to using Gmane
Right. But not everyone is adept of (mailing lists|newsgroups|forums|you
name it). That's not the question. The question was how we thought things
could be improved.
>
>The point was that everyone knows how a browser works.
>
>Newsgroups might be too technical to engage in for newcomers,
>especially if they're already *very* busy trying to make this new
>software they've downloaded (Wine) work and everything's failing right
>and left around their ears with odd 'FontForge' messages,
>seh_exception overflows and what not.
>
Costs (worse first in my own opinion):
- Convince existing users to configure their newsreader.
>
>I think the above point is enough to be a showstopper for the
>newsgroup approach.
>
Well, you may think that, but really, it's not. They had to configure
their mail client for email, and since most (if not all) mail clients
still used double as a news reader, it shouldn't be too much of a
hassle... Then again, they need to configure their newsreader if they
plan on downloading all the warez on USENET (just kidding)
- Segin
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